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Fritz aus Hamburg ist elf Jahre alt und eine richtige Kämpfernatur. Schon bei seiner Geburt brechen seine Schlüsselbeine; am nächsten Tag folgt ein Beinbruch. Fritz hat die sogenannte Glasknochenkrankheit. Das ist ein seltener Gendefekt, der ihn sein gesamtes Leben b...
Diseases have been very limited but now new research is showing there are three potential pathways for a cure. one will be gene therapy. scientists have already mapped out over 200 genes associated with blindness. now they can see where the gene defect is. gene therapy is something given where you are injected alternative genes into the eye and that is reversing some of the sigh technology and some sell abnormalties and improving they're doing reimplantation. they're taking stem cells, reengineer them and replanting those cells in the eye. that is also showing promising. remember, vitamin a is...
They're seeing better results in improving vision. very exciting things for people with this type of problem. jon: obviously a lot of people who have had macular degeneration, now their vision is cloudy or they can't see a thing. is there a prospect of actually bringing sight back to people who have lost it? >> i think optimism is, if you look at staggeredded disease which is single gene defect, and affects teenagers for instance, now they're able to reinject that, gene therapy into the eye. right now preliminary results but they're small but very promising you see reversal on blindness and im...